Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754196AbZD2Szw (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:55:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755529AbZD2Szj (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:55:39 -0400 Received: from blaine.gmane.org ([80.91.229.8]:41249 "EHLO hugh.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752556AbZD2Szh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:55:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OHE1H3EkD6RRFEkBHsxHtRbv3zDvcEdIAValCQRUPJKTrkje1Is7TTDkuZW39PWuz/ WhdPugN7YmKdZLyDlkEtwPuNujnSEx94KKLhcmZsJAD/dHwHi+cfACwvwAwyDnS75vaZ J39twiHxPJo9wmR0ksRmRMeF2YBBJ+8frB4Vw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:27:36 -0400 Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0904291027y56dd65d4ha77b636036f567c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: usbutils 0.81 release From: Mike Frysinger To: Alan Stern Cc: Benny Amorsen , Alan Stern , Greg KH , Kay Sievers , USB list , Kernel development list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-TMDA-Confirmed: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:30:15 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1319 Lines: 34 On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:51, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Benny Amorsen wrote: >> Alan Stern writes: >> > Sure they do.  If you've got an RPM-based system, and you want to >> > install a package version that's more recent than the one bundled in >> > your distribution (or if your distribution doesn't include the package >> > at all), then you'd want to build your own RPM. >> >> In that case you grab the source package from the distribution, install >> it, bump the version number and add the tar file to the SOURCES >> directory. (And then you remove the patches which were upstreamed in the >> meantime). > > You didn't read all that I wrote.  What if the package isn't included > in the distribution at all? install a different distro. any distro even remotely worth its salt is going to package usbutils. this is a devils advocate question, not anything resembling reality. otherwise, anyone who is going to build a rpm should be familiar with the myriad of possibilities out there that handle exactly this case (such as checkinstall). -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/